Works with the central control you already own

Know what your irrigation actually did last night

Droughtless watches every zone, catches the stuck valve or dead line in hours, and only alerts you when it’s real.

Text message · Tue 7:42 AM
Droughtless: Station 4, oak drip. Your controller ran it 3 times this week — the soil under the trees never got wet. Likely a blocked line or a valve not passing. Not urgent: about two weeks before the trees feel it. Worth a look this week.
Thu 8:15 AM
Crushed lateral behind the shop. Fixed.
Confirmed — 3 for 3 this season.
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Your controllerNothing ripped out, nothing replaced
60 daysIn shadow mode before it touches a valve
On-siteInternet down, water still right
ZeroSite visits, forms, or hardware to start

The problem

Irrigation doesn’t fail loudly. It fails quietly.

The controller shows green. The first real sign is a dead tree or an ugly bill.

Stuck open

The valve that runs all night

A main breaks. Nobody tells you. It runs every night until someone happens to walk past.

Low pressure

The zone at 60%

Water still flows, so nothing flags. Weeks pass before anyone connects the dots.

Buried drip

The tree on a dead line

A clogged emitter shows nothing for two months. When the canopy turns, it’s too late.

Alert fatigue

The warnings nobody reads

Hundreds of alerts, almost all noise. The one that mattered scrolled past too.

What Droughtless does

It watches every zone, so you don’t have to

Failures caught in hours, not months

It knows what every zone should be doing — flow, pressure, moisture — and flags the moment reality drifts. A handful of alerts a season. Each one real.

Watering that doesn’t need babysitting

Schedules built from your soil, your slopes, your watering days. When rain comes, it stays off — and stays off long enough.

Proof for whoever asks

Board reports, city filings, budget variance — generated from live data, delivered on schedule.

Under the hood: a live model of how water moves through your soil and pipes. See the full system →

Why trust this one

Burned by a “smart” controller before? Fair.

The ET feature that didn’t stay off. The test plot that cooked the trees. The crew that went back to manual. Droughtless is built for that skepticism.

No black box

It starts as a draft you correct

We build the first map from satellite imagery. You mark it up — that zone’s drip, not spray.

Shadow mode

It earns control before it gets control

60 days beside your current schedule, controlling nothing. You judge it on what it caught.

Still your call

Override anything, anytime

Rain delays, blackout days, a zone pinned to manual — your rules always win.

Getting started

Three steps. No homework.

A free assessment from a satellite photo

We draw your zones from imagery and build a working model at the desk. No site visit, no forms, no as-builts required.

Sixty days of shadow mode

It runs beside your current schedule, controlling nothing. You see what it found and what it would have saved.

Flip the switch

It takes over: waters right, catches failures, flags what matters. You monitor, not manage.

For the person who signs off

The numbers the board and the city actually ask for

Budget variance, in dollars

36 months of watering against budget, on one page. It turns “the bill seems high” into a decision.

Compliance, handled

Checkups, assessments, drought-stage changes — whatever your city calls them, filed on time.

Savings you can defend

Where and when, zone by zone, from meter data — not a brochure estimate.

See your property the way Droughtless sees it — free.

A working model of your property, built from satellite imagery — including where we’re wrong, so you can correct it. No site visit, no hardware, no commitment.